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Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at National Gallery in London coming to world movie screens

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Leonardo’s latest is coming to a multiplex near you — but that’s da Vinci, not DiCaprio. In the latest example of high-brow culture being beamed into movie theaters, “Leonardo Live,” an HD presentation of the sold out “Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan” exhibition at London’s National Gallery will play limited engagements at U.S. movie theaters and throughout the world. Billed as the first-ever tour of a fine art exhibition created for movie theater audiences, “Leonardo Live” will afford art lovers a two-dimensional look via satellite at the sold-out exhibition, which cannot tour due to the works’ fragility. Beginning February 16 2012, the da Vinci film will be screened in U.S. venues as well as in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,